Sunday, October 25, 2026 Search My Trip EnglishChinese
World news · travel · culture
Taiwan The Taiwan Times
Taiwan's window to the world

Castle Lime Works Quarry

United Kingdom

Castle Lime Works Quarry
Castle Lime Works Quarry. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Castle Lime Works Quarry is a 1.6 hectares (4.0 acres) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near South Mimms in Hertfordshire. The site was notified in 1986 under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. The site is a disused chalk quarry and according to Natural England:

This reveals extensive piping in the top of the chalk resulting from solution at the Chalk - Tertiary sediment interface. Believed to have formed during the Tertiary and Pleistocene, it is the finest exposure of clay-filled pipes in the Chalk Karst of England. The site is on private land and there is no public access.

Data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

Other quarries in United Kingdom

See all in United Kingdom →